Ellie Schaffer
Head Of Engineering at CollegePlannerPro
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllie Schaffer is a Head of Engineering with 16 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to build and operate robust web platforms, currently driving engineering, infrastructure, and security improvements at CollegePlannerPro. She blends hands-on backend work in PHP, Node.js, and Rails with people-first management—hiring, mentoring, and raising operational competency across teams. Ellie’s background spans SaaS, education, and healthcare products, including technical leadership on EasyBib Scholar and contributions to the open-source OpenCFP conference submission system where she improved password handling and test coverage. She prioritizes sustainability, respect, and learning over growth for its own sake, and is particularly skilled at turning messy legacy stacks into documented, maintainable systems. Based in New Jersey, she’s open to engineering management or leading technical roles at early-stage companies where autonomy and craft are valued.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MLS Library Science, MLS Library Science at Queens Collegenone Music, none Music at Oberlin College
English, French
Stackoverflow
810reputation
267kreached
30answers
18questions
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
php10
silex9
conferencing8
paper8
mysql7
drupal6
cakephp6
javascript6
symfony-form6
drupal-module6
symfony6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
opencfp/opencfp
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Repo for OpenCFP project, a PHP-based conference talk submission system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 26 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Ellie primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the OpenCFP project. Their work involved refactoring code related to password reset functionality, adding test coverage, and improving error handling within the application. The user also modified the build process by updating test instructions. These changes focused on improving code quality and maintainability of the PHP-based application.
php-basedcall-for-papersphpconferencesconference-talk
yitznewton/ptidinner
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:44 PRs, 98 pushes, 39 branches in 2 years 10 months
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